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What just happened? We’ve just moved a step toward the 10 GHz CPU milestone that Intel said would be here by the year 2005, though it’s a very tiny step and required the usual exotic cooling. A new frequency world record has been set after someone pushed an Intel i9-14900KF above 9.12 GHz.

HWBot’s CPU Frequency chart shows that up until January 12, the current frequency world record holder and only person to push the past the 9 GHz mark was Jon “Elmor” Sandström from ElmorLabs.

Overclocker pushes Intel Core i9-14900KF to 9.12 GHz, setting new CPU frequency world record

But Elmor’s previous record of 9,117.8 MHz using an Intel Core i9-14900KS has now been surpassed by Chinese user wytiwx. The new world record, set on an Intel Core i9-14900KF, is 9,121.6 MHz.

Overclocker pushes Intel Core i9-14900KF to 9.12 GHz, setting new CPU frequency world record

According to the record’s entry, wytiwx used an Asus ROG Maximus Z790 Apex with 16GB of DDR5 memory for his record.

The i9-14900KF, which lacks integrated graphics, had all sixteen of E-cores disabled and hyperthreading turned off, leaving the eight p-cores to break Elmor’s record by just 4 MHz. Liquid helium, a favorite among extreme overclocking enthusiasts, was used to achieve the feat, and the core voltage was set to 1.387V.

Something else that’s notable here is that wytiwx used the Windows 7 (6.1) Operating System for his record.

Overclocker pushes Intel Core i9-14900KF to 9.12 GHz, setting new CPU frequency world record

The i9-14900KF is part of Intel’s older Raptor Lake-S Refresh lineup, built on the same Intel 7 process (10nm-class node) as the 13th-generation Raptor Lake processors.

Team Blue’s latest Arrow Lake desktops have an efficiency focus: the frequency record for one of these CPUs is 7,488.8 MHz on an Intel Core Ultra 9 285K using liquid helium, set by Elmor. The tile-based architecture of the chips can make extreme overclocking more complex.

Intel might dominate this field today, but AMD had held the frequency world record for over a decade with the AMD FX-8350. Launched in October 2012 for $199, Elmor pushed the Bulldozer chip to a then-record 8,793.33 MHz in 2012, which held until Elmor hit 8,812.85 MHz with an i9-13900K in October 2022. He broke the 9 GHz milestone that December on the same CPU.

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